Category: Addiction

I have always considered myself to be a smart person. Not going to work at NASA smart, but relatively intelligent in most aspects. I read.

“And I will try to fix you.” —Coldplay I don’t think any of us sets out with this purpose in mind —this purpose of fixing

I have been the wife of an addict. I have been the addict.

I can remember walking out of the doors of Brighton Center for Recovery just having finished an inpatient stay. Here I was, day one of

Walking away from drug or alcohol addiction has a long list of challenges. Once the substance is removed from the equation, most of us realize

Isolation. That’s what it came down to. I think that’s what it comes down to for almost every alcoholic and addict. Held up in my

“I’m so fat now.” “I hate when people look at my photos in recovery and tell me I look healthy. That’s just a nice way

Definition of relapse: To fall back or revert to a former state, to regress after a period of recovery, to return to unproductive ways of